Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Panama

Panama

Thomas McGuane
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
"This is the first time I've worked without a net." The speaker is Chester Pomeroy, a washed-up rock star turned casualty of illicit substances and kamikaze passion. But we may also read these words as an aesthetic statement from Chester's creator, Thomas McGuane, who has made Panama a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose.

As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero. Out of his struggle to rejoin the human race -- and the imminent possibility that he may die trying -- McGuane has fashioned a harrowing and hilarious novel of "alligators, macadam, the sea, sticky sex, laughter, and sudden death."

"Whatever risk McGuane may have sensed in attempting [Panama], the feat proves successful. The audience is left dazzled." -- The New Yorker
Language
English
Pages
175
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Release
May 30, 1995
ISBN
0679752919
ISBN 13
9780679752912

Panama

Thomas McGuane
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
"This is the first time I've worked without a net." The speaker is Chester Pomeroy, a washed-up rock star turned casualty of illicit substances and kamikaze passion. But we may also read these words as an aesthetic statement from Chester's creator, Thomas McGuane, who has made Panama a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose.

As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero. Out of his struggle to rejoin the human race -- and the imminent possibility that he may die trying -- McGuane has fashioned a harrowing and hilarious novel of "alligators, macadam, the sea, sticky sex, laughter, and sudden death."

"Whatever risk McGuane may have sensed in attempting [Panama], the feat proves successful. The audience is left dazzled." -- The New Yorker
Language
English
Pages
175
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Release
May 30, 1995
ISBN
0679752919
ISBN 13
9780679752912

More books from Thomas McGuane

Ninety-two in the Shade

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Bushwhacked Piano

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Driving on the Rim

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Nothing but Blue Skies

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Gallatin Canyon

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Crow Fair: Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Sporting Club

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Nobody's Angel

3.7/5 ( ratings)

McSweeney's #47

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Wild Stories: The Best of Men's Journal

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Full Creel: A Nick Lyons Reader

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe V: A Cast of Characters and Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

My Life in Fishing: Favorite Long Stories Told Short

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Keep the Change

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Blood Knots: A Memoir of Fathers, Friendship, and Fishing

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Silent Seasons: Twenty-One Fishing Stories

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Refugee (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Vicious Circle

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader